I think I'm a very poor piano player.
Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.
Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?
What we are really lacking today is a real hatred of evil.
What sweet, what happy days had I,When dreams made Time Eternity!
To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.